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Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's 'world's largest' data centre
(www.nationalobserver.com)
What the actual fuck is wrong with Albertans?
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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Looking up to the US and years of brainwashing.
Hey, I think I'm okay.
If you want to revise that to a majority of Albertans, you'd be closer. Although most people that vote for the UCP don't actually agree with them.
What kind of pOS do you you need to be to vote for someone you don't agree with? Why would you do that?
Welcome to (especially rural) Alberta. It's a really tribal thing - there's a vibe that voting anyone other than Conservative is a betrayal of the community. (Notice Danielle Smith straight-up banned any other parties from calling themselves Conservative, recently)
I was talking to some people from Battle River-Crowfoot, back when PP stole the seat. They were pissed, going on about how much they hate him, and how great the last guy was. Aaand then conversation shifted to how to spell "Poilievre" on the write-in ballot, so it would be counted properly. There was no irony acknowledged, or even a break of any kind to separate the two.
Separating from Canada? Everyone hates it. Messing with people's pensions as a step towards it? Everyone hates it. Busting strikes? People were pissed, and her polls sure dropped. Buuut it was short lived, and the UCP is still leading, despite separatism being about half of their platform.
TBF, you can argue about whether that matters, or if voting blindly for a candidate who's awful is actually worse than just knowingly being awful. It is frustrating as hell, for sure.
Not just Albertans as you will literally see a post on r/britishcolumbia worried about this upcoming fire season and heatwaves and then the next post is applauding Carney’s push to build more LNG terminals to extract and ship even more methane which is horrible for the environment despite the greenwashing, but if you oppose, you gets defensive, belligerent attacks about not supporting Canada’s sovereignty and such BS. We get what we sow.
Hey now! The federal government also had to exempt Alberta from federal environmental regulations to allow this to go through.
This is not to support AI. This is to support AB fossil fuel industry. All they look for is an excuse to burn burn burn.
I hate everything about this: the pandering to a billionaire, the continued corruption to support oil and gas and how the regulation gives the director so much latitude.
You can do full or partial provincial EIAs (and small projects are often exempt) but this project should absolutely have an EIA as it's novel technology and had large cumulative effects. If you're going to make projects like pulp mills and highways have an EIA this should be a dead ringer
Because some things are more important than the only planet in our solar system that can possibly sustain our species and virtually all life.
O’Leary is part of this? That asshole should be banned from Canada.
Hey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?
On top of all the other problems data centers bring to communities, one should be aware that datacenters also can behave like ike acoustic weapons.
This video is worth a watch if you are interested in knowing a little more.
I just watched that the other night
Benn has taken an,amazing turn with his channel and I'm all for it.
And, unsurprisingly, it's a US-based firm leading the funding for the project with $100 million.
Build it in Quebec on hydro power and I have zero issue.
Do it like this and I will do everything in my power to stop it.
I did not know he was involved. Greeaaat, now it's a crony thing too.
Im not really worried. Judging by O'Leary's reputation, both publicly and from the one person I know who's met him, this is going to involve a whole lot of hype and fundraising, but is highly unlikely to actually get built.